The Diversity Coach™ on Culture

Change efforts include mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, rightsizing, or any of the many strategic focus initiatives like six-sigma, innovation, performance enhancement, and learning organization. If you accept the fact that diversity management also involves...

Culture & Innovation – Pt II

I’m also a major proponent of using management as a catalyst for producing organizational success.  When the remaining questions, as we move deeper into the 21st-century is, what problem was management. as we know it, designed to solve? Gary Hamel suggests that...

Culture & Innovation – Pt I

I have long contended that innovation lies at the intersection of creativity and diversity. My argument is that to get real innovation in an organization requires a well managed, diverse team of people, with the freedom to try new ideas and develop new ways of doing...

Why Understanding Culture Matters

Much of the work of performing culture audits as a part of diversity work misses the point. It is clear that an unexamined culture will likely continue to create an environment that will tolerate rather than appreciate and manage diversity. But to conduct culture...